Hi, sharke. I've been making elaborate notes for my personal use as I test everything out along the way and when I find something broken I'll detail the problem and any workarounds I can figure out for it. I was considering compiling a list to send to Cake but I, as you, do not have the time or inclination for it so they remain as little footnotes. I'd love to help them out but there is just too many things broken and too many errors in the text. If there were some kind of monetary or discount incentives for me to do it I might but just doing things as I am is grueling and mind numbing enough as it is. Besides I'm still working with build 308 as I don't want to introduce any of the new problems to my install so a lot would be duplication of certain things that have been fixed with the patch and the rest probably dismissed because... well I haven't installed the patch. I have confirmed many broken items with folks here who do have the patch installed.

IDK... my benevolence does have its limits. Maybe next go around. I really need to focus on my own crap for a while.

Cheers. I hope you've been well.

Check out SonarMods' Duckbar, and use one of their customized themes.  It will color coordinate the whole thing for you!

Beepster


Yup, by Scott Garrigus. He is a member here and runs (or helps run) digifreq.com that has a ton of useful info as well. Also be sure to watch some of the Sonar University vids http://www.cakewalk.com/CakeTV/SONARU.aspx and the Sonar webinars http://www.cakewalk.com/CakeTV/Live.aspx

If you own X2 you should also have a free month pass to Groove3.com in your Cakewalk store account which has a ton more videos. If you haven't already redeemed that pass do so quickly because it expires at the end of this month. Cheers. 

I'm currently using the demo version while I wait for the purchased box to arrive. Trust me, I'm eyeballing the groove3 videos. I've already purchased some of there other non Sonar videos.  So, yeah, I plan on watching them as soon as I can.

Thanks for the tip about digifreq and the cake links.

Saxon1066


Check out SonarMods' Duckbar, and use one of their customized themes.  It will color coordinate the whole thing for you!

Sweet!  I'm on it.

Guess I'm going to have to wait until my full paid version gets here. I tried to run duckbar, didn't find sonar so I had t open the config file for duckbar. Was able to change the settings needed to get it to run, but there were some things that duckbar was still failing on.  Must not like the directory structure for the demo version.

Maybe.  You might want to contact Panu (SonarMods creator) and let him know about that.

Beepster


Hi, sharke. I've been making elaborate notes for my personal use as I test everything out along the way and when I find something broken I'll detail the problem and any workarounds I can figure out for it. I was considering compiling a list to send to Cake but I, as you, do not have the time or inclination for it so they remain as little footnotes. I'd love to help them out but there is just too many things broken and too many errors in the text. If there were some kind of monetary or discount incentives for me to do it I might but just doing things as I am is grueling and mind numbing enough as it is. Besides I'm still working with build 308 as I don't want to introduce any of the new problems to my install so a lot would be duplication of certain things that have been fixed with the patch and the rest probably dismissed because... well I haven't installed the patch. I have confirmed many broken items with folks here who do have the patch installed.

IDK... my benevolence does have its limits. Maybe next go around. I really need to focus on my own crap for a while.

Cheers. I hope you've been well.

When I was reading the manual I got the distinct impression that it had been hastily thrown together from earlier versions of the manual and that they weren't too careful about checking how much of that text still applied to X2. I hope they release an updated manual at some point; I mean like most people I'm probably going to end up with a copy of X2 Power! but when all is said and done it's always good to have a copy of the official manual lying around for reference. 

Duckbar is never tested with SONAR demo version and it will not start without manual tweaking to config file (not difficult, though). X1 b,c,d, X2, X2a Producer and versions (64 and 32 bit) are at the 'safe zone'. Studio versions should work, too.

Thanks panup.

I got it to run but as mentioned, there were some issues. No big deal.  I was able to manually edit the config file. So you developed this in .net eh?  I'm assuming that Sonar was developed in C++?  I've not coded in C++ in 16 years.  Been mostly .net for me.

Yes, Duckbar is .net, but I have used a lot of Win32 API calls, too. SONAR is C++.